NHER 53902 (Cropmark and Earthwork record) - Possible ring ditch

March 2009. Aerial photograph interpretation.
A possible ring ditch or oval enclosure of unknown date and function is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (S1), centred on TG 4400 1093. It lies to the south east of an extensive area of complex, multi-phase cropmarks (NHER 41010, NHER 13011), comprising trackways, enclosures and probable field boundaries. Its positioning in the vicinity of these might suggest it represents a domestic or agricultural enclosure, perhaps a round house, probably of prehistoric or Roman date. Other ring ditches, however, are thought to be the remains of Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monuments and a similar interpretation cannot be ruled out here. At the same time, the cropmarks are rather faint and intermittent, and might not reflect a ring ditch at all, but possibly even the background geology at the site.
E. Bales (NLA), 10 March 2009.